Finally!!!!!...

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:58 pm

Found a teeny tiny pullet egg this morning in the shavings on the floor...totally forgot how wee those things can be..timing is good, although I don't know which of the younguns laid it but I'm guessing one of the RIRs...the rocks are slowing down for moult so hopefully the new crew will kick in soon....yay!!.. Happy dance!! :running-chicken:

argosgirl · Post by **argosgirl** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:12 pm

Yay!!!

I love finding pullet eggs. I'm still waiting on my three youngest olive eggers to start.

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:20 pm

Argosgirl...it was a mid brownish eggshell...i have 5 easteregger over blk orpington pullets in with the crew..they are 6 months old tomorrow and I'm anxious to see what they produce..hoping some shade of green but who knows

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 8:12 pm

Always exciting. My girls are just getting to 21 weeks.

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 9:16 pm

It's like an Easter egg hunt for adults lol. I check each day hoping for a little egg in the nest or on the floor now. Maybe the new hen is too old to lay but the younger one should start in February. Tom you commented on my post that you had hatching thoughts, don't do it buddy, resist that urge. Now you are probably thinking what a nice guy to not enable you, but I will put the bug in your ear that if you hatch chicks in January or February you will have ready to lay birds for the spring market! Hahaha.

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 10:39 pm

Always great this time of year--I've gotten two pullet eggs this past week, one from my single Dorking girl and one from one of my project girls, both hatched end of last March :o -- All the mature hens are molting, only got 7 eggs in the past three days and one of those was a goose egg and two are duck! With no shortage of hens...and I was seriously considering buying some production birds for eggs because I'm feeling the lack of eggs, but hopefully all the Spring girls are going to kick it up a notch REALLY soon and save my pocketbook LOL. And my sanity, because I have no idea how many girls of egg laying age I have out there: I stopped counting somewhere around 30, so to not be getting eggs is making me grumpy. Tom, do you have any pictures of your EE/Orpington crosses? Are they Ameraucana mixes or Legbar? Because if they are Ameraucana mixes and you can show me headshots, I can tell you exactly what colour eggs they are going to lay :D

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 10:45 pm

DON'T HATCH!!!! do as I say, and not as I do LMAO! I have a growout pen full, two rubbermaid tubs of chicks in the house, and 17 more hatching upstairs as I type. Because I got 3 late goose eggs and HAD to hatch them since I lost 5 geese to a coyote, and no point in running the incubator with only 3 eggs in it, so I put the last of my "spare" eggs in it just before the hens went on strike. Of course this means that I'm probably going to have 17 chicks in the house or under heat in the barn until february. silly, silly, silly! Don't DO it!

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:33 am

WWW, i'll get you some shots today....beautiful calm birds...huge...and i have a bachelor pen with some gorgeous boys...wouldabeen so much earier to thin this herd if they had been all the same breed...the variety makes things very very difficult..and no fighting yet..awesome
I may yet hatch but we'll see
The rocks are amazing..sweet birds with bald butts ( never did figure out what the issue is ) ...currently the yeild is one day sux eggs or so, the next, ten...out of twelve birds...can't really knock it, especially when everyone else is saying they get virtually nothing out of more hens...
Now, out to the coop to look for any more fairy farts

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:51 am

Well I'm jealous now! Congrats!!!
Still waiting for my new girls to start and from the size of their tiny little vents I've still got a while. I'm getting one egg a day out of my other 7 girls. Have to save all week just to have a good breakfast on Sunday!

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:19 am

WWW, there is no hope for you, I think you are lost to the poultry world, lol.